Jap Invasion Fleet Stopped

WASHINGTON--American torpedo planes and dive bombers, blasting the seventh Jap invasion against Guadalcanal, sank an enemy cruiser or destroyer, set fire to three other warships and shot down 10 aircraft last Thursday at a cost of only three planes, the Navy disclosed today.

The going also got tougher for the beleaguered enemy troops on Guadalcanal where American soldiers and Marines, in a possible prelude to a drive to annihilate every Jap on the island, employed heavy artillery fire yesterday west of prized Henderson airfild.